EPL: Guardiola, Kloop Reacts After Man City, Liverpool Game

Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City forced high-flying Liverpool to a 1-1 draw at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday, November 8, and both team managers held each other to deep discussion right after the game.

Both teams could not be separated in their first Premier League meeting of the season after Mohamed Salah’s goal was well responded to by Gabriel Jesus in a match which ended 1-1.

After the final whistle, both managers met with each other to exchange the mandatory manager-handshakes, but the Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp held to his colleague as he appeared frustrated.

City boss Pep Guardiola has emerged with full details of the conversation claiming both tacticians lamented about the number of substitutions allowed in the Premier League this season.

Recall that since football returned after the coronavirus, most big leagues have increased the number of substitutes per game from three to five – but the Premier League maintained three.

Pep Guardiola said, as cited in Soccer Laduma: “We speak about how we have to fight again and again about five substitutions. All around the world, there is five substitutions.

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has revealed what he and Jurgen Klopp, who did not look happy, spoke about following their 1-1 draw with Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday. #SLInt

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“Here we believe we are a special league with just three players, we don’t protect the players. Look at Trent Alexander-Arnold, an international English player, he is injured. That’s why it is a disaster.”

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Klopp was also alleged to have accused EPL CEO Richard Masters of a “lack of leadership”, before calling five substitutions “a necessity”.